The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 11
At last they reached their journey’s end, but by this time it was late, and the puma’s comrade was ready for bed, so they slung their hammocks in convenient places, and went to sleep.
Who acts: men, end, comrade · What happens: reach, be, sling, go, journey · To what, where: end, last, hammocks, convenient places, sleep
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, end, comrade), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 journey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 journey | case |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 late | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 late | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 late | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 late | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 late | cop |
| 16 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reached | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ready | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ready | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 puma | det |
| 20 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 puma | case |
| 22 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ready | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ready | cop |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 late | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 bed | case |
| 26 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ready | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 slung | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 slung | advmod |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 slung | nsubj |
| 30 | slung | sling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hammocks | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hammocks | hammock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 slung | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 places | case |
| 34 | convenient | convenient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 places | amod |
| 35 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 slung | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 went | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 went | cc |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 sleep | case |
| 40 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | men = man | men's journey's end | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent end=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 2 | is | past | end | time | late property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | the puma's comrade | for bed; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sling | past | men = man | men's hammocks | convenient places | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hammock=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 5 | go | past | men = man not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | journey | men = man | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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